On 9/21/07, Michael Daly
<michaeldaly(a)kayakwiki.org> wrote:
<ref name="name">The Best Book
Ever Written</xref>
<ref name="name" append="pp 1-7" />
<ref name="name" append="pp 8-14" />
Works for me, but _one_ comment: if we want to be able to combine the
section reference into the display somehow, we might want to have a
specific para for this, "section=" or such. To see what I'm getting
at, I'll paraphrase a ref from a recent article (actually, it's on the
front page right now)...
<ref name="Soviets">[ link to a web page ] </ref>
<ref name="Soviets" section="pp. 25-27" />
<ref name="Soviets" append="It should be noted that other sources
disagree with this claim." />
In the second case we're saying we absolutely want to add a note to
the end of the reference. In the first case, however, we're only
specifying a section, we don't really care how it's displayed. It
might simply be appended, but maybe someone else comes up with a
better way to do this.
I'm not saying this is a must-have by any means, I'm of two minds
whether the two would ever be different in practice.
That kind of note should be a separate footnote. Having it as part of
the reference means people no interested in references will miss it.
It should be a footnote in the appropriate part of the article. The
proposed group parameter makes that easily done.
One thing I haven't seen discussed - how will we distinguish between
different groups with the inline links? If I see <sup>1</sup> in an
article, how am I to know if it's a note or a ref?